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G. The Empire Protective association gives
up the fight against the Third Avenue road.
L. At the meeting Of the Brotherhood Of
Telegraphers, at Kansas City, it was decided
to join the knights Of Labor.
25 The Lake Shore switchmen at Chicago,
out on strike, became very demonstrative; a
train of cars thrown off the track.
JULY.
81. Union employees of fourteen New York
cigar factories locked out.
s. Tho men who distributed boycott circu-
lars referring to the Widow Landgraff's
bakery were convicted at New York, before
Judge Barrett, and sentenced to terms Of i'm
prisonmcnt of from ten to thirty days.
25 Tho National CigarniakcrG' union with-
drew from the Knights of Labor.
AUGUST.
49, The cigarmakers of New York, who
had been on strike for some time, determined
to resume work.
90 Tho eight Chicago Anarchists who were
on trial for the Haymarket riot and bomb
throwing were convicted. Spies, Schwab,
Fielden, Parsons, Fischer, Engel and Lingg
wero sentenced to death. Neebe got fifteen
years in prison.
AAS
tie up was Of short duration.
SEPTEMBER.
4. Three hundred and thirty plumbers
locked out in New York city because Of q
difference between thera and the bosses over
the apprenticeship rule.
Q. Monster parade and demonstration Of
trades ulionists and their sympathizers in
New York city.
r. One thousand sailors struck at San
Francisco owing to differences with the ship
ping agents.
16 All the laborers and mechanics Of
Charleston, s. c., struck for an increase Of
wages, which was denied. The men there
upon resumed work.
rubbeIs struck in New York city against the
employment Of non-union man.
OCTOBER
4. Armours beef men were ordered to quit
work
z. Eight thousand pork packers of Chicago
struck for eight hours.
Z. The general assembly Of the Knights Of
Labor organized at Richmond and admitted
the Home club.
16. The morocco workers Of Wilmington,
who have been out ON strike for seven months,
have returned to work.
II. Lucy Parsons, wife Of one Of the con-
demned Chicago Anarchists, began a series
Of addresses in New York and vicinity in be-
! half Of her husband and his colleagues.
| 18. Tis, great strike Of the Chicago packing
house workman Is at an end, the men having
agreed to return to work on the ten hour plan.
~ ha mi 70 ~
Labor, at Richmond, Va, was adjourned sine
die Grand Master Workman Powderly's
salary was increased to 5000 from 81 800.
Other salaries raised accordingly.
81. The convention of the National Brother
hood of Engineers, at New York, unani-
mously reelected p. II. Arthur, of Cleveland,
grand chief engineer.
q. The condemned Chicago Anarchists
/ have beeen granted q supersedeas. This oper-
ates as stay Of execution.
NOVEMBER.
/. The striking miners at Shamolrin, Pa,
decide to resume work. The painters and
paper hangers Of Haverhill, Mass, struck for
ninc hours.
4. The Paterson molders' strike was ended
by tho bosses granting the increase de-
manded.
6. The Augusta, Ga, cotton mill strike is
at an end. Tho mill owners yield.
6. Twenty thousand Chicago pork packers
again quit work.
q. Three thousand six hundred bottlcrs, Of
the eastern portions of the United States,
struck against proposed reduction Of S per
cent. in their wages.
| Is The strike Of the tanners and curriers'
of Salem and Peabody, Mass, has failed.
DECEMBER
Z. Strike In Breeds shoe shops at Lynn,
Mass, 700 persons went out.
H. The conference Of trades unions at Col
ulnbus, o., adopt the name of "The American
Confederation Of Labor"
IS. The Brooklyn Knights Of Labor object
to the payment of contribution Of 81 each
toward purchasing q hall in New York.
81. The employees of the Eureka Iron COM
pany, at Oxmoor, Ala. quit work on account
Of compulsory school tax.
23 Several Of the Brooklyn surface roads
tied up. Settled same day, after some blood
shed.
25. One thousand two hundred dissatisfied
employees at the coal wharves Of the Reading
road in Philadelphia, struck. Unless tho de-
n1ands of the men are granted, G5, 600 Knights
of Labor will 20 out shortly.